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    The fading American dream: trends in absolute income mobility since 1940

    December 8, 2016

    Washington Center for Equitable Growth | By Raj Chetty, David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Nathaniel Hendren, Robert Manduca, and Jimmy Narang.

    A summary of the authors' findings from a newly-released paper by a team of researchers from Stanford, Harvard, and UC Berkeley. Harvard Inequality & Social Policy affiliates are Nathaniel Hendren, Assistant Professor of Economics, and Robert Manduca, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy. Learn more: The Equality of Opportunity Project ▶

    The costs of inequality: For women, progress until they get near power

    The costs of inequality: For women, progress until they get near power

    March 7, 2016

    Harvard Gazette | Surveys Harvard research on gender inequality, including work by Inequality & Social Policy affiliates Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics; Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; and Heather Sarsons, Ph.D. candidate in Economics. Sixth in a series on what Harvard scholars are doing to understand and find solutions to problems of inequality. This article also appeared at US News and World Report.

    The CFPB Is Making Government More Accountable. The GOP Wants to Stop It

    The CFPB Is Making Government More Accountable. The GOP Wants to Stop It

    June 9, 2017
    Washington Monthly | By Barbara Kiviat, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. The Financial CHOICE Act would remove the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s popular consumer complaints database from public view. At a time when many Americans feel government is unaccountable and out of touch with the day-to-day lives of everyday people, Kiviat argues, "Keeping complaints visible to the full American public, and not just to government bureaucrats, represents one of the more innovative mechanisms of accountability to emerge from federal government in recent years."
    The big change that could help poor people move to lower poverty neighborhoods

    The big change that could help poor people move to lower poverty neighborhoods

    June 17, 2016

    Washington Post | Quotes and cites research of Eva Rosen (Ph.D. '14), now a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University. Also cites research by faculty affiliate Matthew Desmond and Kristin L. Perkins (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and Social Policy), and by Robert Collinson and Peter Ganong (Harvard Ph.D. '16, now Chicago Harris School of Public Policy).

    The American Dream, Quantified at Last

    The American Dream, Quantified at Last

    December 8, 2016

    The New York Times | Nathaniel Hendren, Assistant Professor of Economics, and Robert Manduca, Ph.D. student in Sociology & Social Policy, are among a team of researchers from Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley who have released an important new study of economic mobility in the U.S., which finds that only half of Americans in their thirties earn more than their parents did at the same age. A few decades ago, nearly all did.

    The team was led by economist Raj Chetty of Stanford and Nathaniel Hendren of Harvard, principal investigators for the Equality of Opportunity project, in collaboration with sociologist David Grusky of Stanford. The study incorporates results from an independent working paper by Inequality & Social Policy doctoral fellow Robert Manduca titled “Opportunity No More: Declining Absolute Mobility in the United States, 1940-2010.”
    View the new study (PDF)
    Learn more: Equality of Opportunity project

    The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

    The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

    March 17, 2016

    Pacific Standard | Alex Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy) has been selected one of 'Thirty under 30' top young thinkers who are making an impact on the social, political, and economic issues that will shape the nation's future.  Hertel-Fernandez joins the Columbia University faculty as Assistant Professor in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).

    Ted Cruz cited this research when he said most violent criminals are Democrats. Now the researchers say he's wrong.

    Ted Cruz cited this research when he said most violent criminals are Democrats. Now the researchers say he's wrong.

    December 2, 2015

    Washington Post | By Marc Meredith (University of Pennsylvania) and Michael Morse (Ph.D. student in Government). Meredith and Morse, authors of the 2014 paper cited by Cruz, detail how their research does not support his claim. Also noted in their reply: research by Vesla Weaver (Ph.D. '07, now Yale University) and Traci Burch (Ph.D. '07, now Northwestern University).

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